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The Trails Committee at its meeting Wednesday night discussed the slow but steady progress being made on the Center Trail to the Chamberlain Road extension. “The price of free work is that it moves slowly and on its own timetable,” explained member Chuck Dauchy. The...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dedwnVvF7fU Select Board chair Brian Herr at Tuesday's Select Board meeting pushed for the creation of a special liaison for the Main Street Corridor Project and an explanation for the continuing delay of the electrical transformers...
After some discussion, the Select Board on Tuesday unanimously approved the permit for the July 4 Horribles Parade, weighing the participants’ right to free speech against the potential for satirical floats to inflame divisions in town. Historically, before the...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dedwnVvF7fU The Select Board Tuesday night reluctantly voted to raise water rates by 40% but kept sewer rates flat for the upcoming fiscal year. Select Board chair Brian Herr questioned the high raise as well as the alternate presented...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dedwnVvF7fU The Select Board at its meeting Tuesday night decided unanimously to slow down the process for hiring a deputy police chief despite the process reaching its penultimate stage in order to allow for the review of police manual...
ARRESTS June 15 4:15 p.m. Officers Cody Normandin, Matthew LaTour and Noah Buentello responded to a motor vehicle accident on East Main Street and subsequently arrested a 55-year-old resident of Curtis Road in Hopkinton, charging him with OUI liquor, third offense....
Hopkinton Police Chief Joseph Bennett announced late Tuesday night that the Police Department was investigating an incident that took place Tuesday afternoon at the Town Common. Following are details from the press release: Around 2:40 p.m., Hopkinton Police responded...
The Planning Board met Monday night and informally agreed on an immediate course of action regarding the MBTA Communities Act Law, which was voted down at Annual Town Meeting last month but is likely to return for another vote at an upcoming Special Town Meeting in...
The town announced that a meet and greet session will be held this Thursday, June 20, to offer Hopkinton residents and employees the opportunity to interact with the finalists for the position of Hopkinton’s next town manager. The event will take place from 6-8 p.m....
The battle against invasive aquatic weeds marches on as town officials prepare to treat Lake Maspenock with herbicides next week. The treatment, scheduled for June 17, will be applied to the lake’s north basin. It will be focused on the area around Sandy Beach and...
ARRESTS None this week. [Editor's note: Hopkinton Independent policy for the arrests section is to remove the arrested individual's name after it has been posted for approximately one week.] POLICE LOG June 4 1:48 a.m. Sergeant Arthur Schofield made checks of...
During its meeting Tuesday night, the Conservation Commission unanimously approved a notice of intent to manage excess water as part of the addition plans for Hopkins Lower Middle School. Conservation Administrator Kim Ciaramicoli detailed a long process of “several...
Hopkinton Independent founder Sarah Lothrop Duckett passed away Friday at the age of 77 after a period of declining health. A longtime resident of Fenton Street near downtown Hopkinton, Duckett started the paper in 1999. She sold it to co-owners David Bagdon of Bagdon...
The Hopkinton Police announced Wednesday morning that they were assisting the State Police with the search for a suspect who was involved in a pursuit on Interstate 495. The police advisory, issued at about 11:30 a.m., requested that individuals avoid the areas of...
The question of how involved the Select Board should be in the hiring of a new deputy fire chief was debated at Tuesday’s meeting. In receiving updates on the hiring process from Fire Chief Gary Daugherty, the board discussed whether members should be participating in...
ARRESTS May 29 6:45 p.m. A caller reported an erratic operator on Grove Street. Officers Cody Normandin, Nicholas Saletnik and Matthew LaTour responded and subsequently arrested a 56-year-old from Framingham and charged her with negligent operation of a motor vehicle...
At Tuesday’s Select Board meeting, town counsel walked members through different scenarios regarding the Tim Brennan situation. Brennan, who was terminated from the Hopkinton Police Department by the Select Board on Feb. 8, filed a grievance and is taking his case to...
Editor's note: This story was updated twice, first to correct that the Dogwood Way residence was being used to distribute only mangoes and to include a comment from the homeowner, and a second time to include a comment from the second homeowner insisting she has no...
